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The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
Salvadoran Civil War: El Salvador: FMLN RN: 1979 1989 Soviet–Afghan War. Part of the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) Peshawar Seven Tehran Eight AMFFF. Supported by: United States United Kingdom Canada Australia West Germany France Italy Greece Japan South Korea Taiwan Pakistan Iran Arab World Turkey Soviet Union Afghanistan Supported by:
1885 — Barrios' War of Reunification; 1969 Football War; 1960 — 1996 Central American crisis. 1979 — 1992 Salvadoran Civil War. December 11, 1981 El Mozote massacre; August 21, 1982 — August 22, 1982 El Calabozo massacre; June 19, 1985 21:30 Zona Rosa attacks; November 16, 1989 Murder of UCA scholars; 2022–present Salvadoran gang ...
Alfredo Cristiani. The year 1989 was of key importance for the armed conflict in El Salvador.In February of that year, a far-right paramilitary organisation known as the "Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Anti-Communist Brigade" placed a bomb near the building of the Salvadoran Workers Union (Spanish: Unión de Trabajadores Salvadoreños). [3]
Over the course of the 1970s, significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war's full outbreak. The United States supported the Salvadoran military government and supplied them with four billion dollars, trained their military elites, and provided them with arms over the course of a decade.
Second Totoposte War (1903) El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan Exiles Guatemala: Stalemate. Status quo ante bellum; Third Totoposte War (1906) El Salvador Mexico Guatemalan Exiles Guatemala: Stalemate: War of 1907 (1907) El Salvador Nicaragua Salvadoran Exiles American Filibusters Honduras: Victory. Status quo ante bellum; World War II (1941–1945)
This is a list of conflicts in The Americas.This list includes all present-day countries starting northward first from Northern America (Canada, Greenland, and the United States of America), southward to Middle America (Aridoamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica in Mexico; and Central America over Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua), eastward to the ...
Protest against U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War in Chicago, Illinois, in March 1989. While Salvadoran migration to the U.S. remained low throughout the first several decades in the 20th century, it spiked at the onset of the Salvadoran Civil War, where many fled to the United States seeking sanctuary from the devastation that ...